Beauty is vain. It appears and like the wind, it’s gone

Beauty is vain. It appears and, like the wind, it’s gone

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

In my experience, I’ve found myself to be inexperienced. But at least I found myself. Some people spend their lives searching in vain.

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the...

And you will know honest happiness. Of that I am certain. Certain because it’s why you are here and also because here is your inevitability.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Clichés so often befall vain people.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

I need his money.”Spencer looked at me and I couldn’t help but stare back. We were all in the same boat, prisoners to GREED.

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

A mighty pain to love it is,And ’tis a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.

Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,’She is as vain as a man,’ and they will have perfect reason. The bearded creatures are quite...

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don’t chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story...

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.

Don’t complain. It’s just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling… Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!

Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live...

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.

I want to spend less time talking about myself, and more time listening to what other people have to say about me.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. – Jace

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this … I still love scribbling the word – WRITER – any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write...

If we could only get rid of consciousness. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal...

Nature does nothing in vain.

I breathe onto a mirror just to make sure I’m still alive, and to see how good looking my breath is.

Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are a little vain, knowing themselves...

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

Like pets, I name my leftover food. Only I name them all after myself, partly so my coworkers won’t eat them in the fridge, but mostly out of vanity.

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.